The hazards of cleaning can be reduced with comfortable, ergonomic tools and equipment.

Each and every day, in-house custodial professionals and building service contractors (BSCs) complete repetitive cleaning tasks.

Over time, these motions have the potential to cause physical pain and reduce employee satisfaction, thereby affecting your business’ productivity and profitability.

Understanding the way equipment impacts physical health and methods for improving ergonomic stressors will better prepare your workers for their cleaning crusades.

What’s The Risk?

According to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), ergonomics involves assessing work-related factors that pose risks to individuals and finding solutions to alleviate those problems.

Thus, rather than forcing workers to fit the demands of their occupation, ergonomics designs the job to fit to workers’ needs.

The intensity, frequency and duration of these motions also impact a worker’s health by contributing to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), which affect the body’s muscles, joints, tendons and ligaments.